The Fault in Our Stars/John Green/318 pages

Hazel is a stage IV cancer patient being kept alive by some kind of miracle drug and an oxygen tank, doctors have suggested going to a support group to help her battle with depression. Augustus is a gorgeous, ex-basketball that has had leg amputated and in remission.  Ok, you can already tell this book will not end well. A love story that begins with two teenage kids dealing with things much larger than anyone should be asked to handle and they handle it with grace, humor and yes, sometimes, anger. This is a sad story but the author has told the story and captured the feelings of not only terminally ill kids and their families, but of teens, just wanting to be normal.  Green worked as a chaplain in a children's hospital right out of college. The author says as a result of this experience   he's spent twelve years trying to write a book about kids with cancer - not poster children of strength and courage and illness-granted wisdom, but real kids and their families and friends who have to cope with the fact that they will die young. One of the best books I've read this year, grab the tissue box and start reading.